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THE RELIGION OF THE IGNORANT

According to the unscientific supposition of this theory, every liv-
ing species has sprung from a predecessor. A previously existing
species turned into something else over time and all species have come
into being in this way. In other words, this transformation proceeds
gradually over millions of years.
Had this been the case, numerous intermediary species should
have existed and lived within this long transformation period.
For instance, some half-fish/half-reptiles should have lived in the
past which had acquired some reptilian traits in addition to the fish
traits they already had. Or there should have existed some reptile-
birds, which acquired some bird traits in addition to the reptilian traits
they already had. Since these would be in a transitional phase, they
should be disabled, defective, crippled living beings. Evolutionists
refer to these imaginary creatures, which they believe to have lived in
the past, as "transitional forms."
If such animals ever really existed, there should be millions and
even billions of them in number and variety. More importantly, the
remains of these strange creatures should be present in the fossil
record. In The Origin of Species, Darwin explained:
If my theory be true, numberless intermediate varieties, linking
most closely all of the species of the same group together must as-
suredly have existed... Consequently, evidence of their former exis-
tence could be found only amongst fossil remains. 10
However, Darwin was well aware that no fossils of these inter-
mediate forms had yet been found. He regarded this as a major diffi-
culty for his theory. In one chapter of his book titled "Difficulties on
Theory," he wrote:
Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gra-
dations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms?
Why is not all nature in confusion instead of the species being, as
we see them, well defined?… But, as by this theory innumerable
transitional forms must have existed, why do we not find them

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